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Your latest pro tip youtube video has come close to convincing me to change my rendering workflow to an all-LRT solution (away from using raws to render directly in AE and, sometimes, AME).
But I'm having a lot of trouble getting the TIFFs that are coming out of LR to match the video file that LRT produces. I'm sure that the fault is mine, and something is set up incorrectly, but I am having trouble figuring out what that is.
fyi: I am rendering max resolution, max colour-depth master files (to act as source files for editing/stock). I want them to be as lossless as possible (so that I can permanently archive my RAW files), thus my LRT export settings:
Codec: Prores
Output Size: Source
Colour Sampling: 444
Quality: ultra high
Gamut: BT.2020
Video Levels: full range
My setup and software versions:
M1 Mac Mini (Big Sur OSX 11.5.2)
My system is colour managed, and I have the correct screen profile .icc file loaded into LRT (I know that's only for previews, but I thought I'd mention it)
LR Classic 10.4
LRT Pro 5.6.3 (build 717)
Camera Raw 13.4
AE 18.4.1 (build 4) Colour management is on, Project Working Space is Rec2020 GAMMA2.4
1st attached image: in Photoshop: what a TIFF out of LR (using LRT export) looks like (this is a cropped sRGB JPEG version of a high contrast area, it's close enough to the TIFF to be a good example)
2nd attached image: LR export screen
3rd: LRT export screen
4th: 1st frame of final movie in AE (this is an 8-bit PNG screenshot with embedded profile, but the shift from the original AE screen is minimal).
Note: I'm only using AE to show the movie frame because it is colour managed, so the last screenshot is an accurate representation of the quite large colour and gamma difference between the TIFF that LR produced, and the movie that LRT produced (lost of detail in the brighter areas of the movie is particularly concerning).
Can you tell me where am I going wrong?